Liberals and Labor Responsible for Salmon Tipping Point
Lutruwita/Tasmania’s marine environment should be protected to retain its biodiversity, amenity and fish for the future.
Lutruwita/Tasmania’s marine environment should be protected to retain its biodiversity, amenity and fish for the future.
When you do a PhD, you ought to, in my view, have an understanding about logic, about rationality and particularly an understanding about evidence.
Rosalie Woodruff responds to the announcement that the Government will be approving a large fish farm off Betsy Island in Storm Bay.
The Minister is on the record as saying your sustainable growth plan for the salmon farming industry will be oceanic, not estuarine.
The Environment Protection Authority has lowered the maximum concentration of farmed fish in Macquarie Harbour down to 14,000 tonnes per hectare.
The Minister has requested an independent assessment by the Marine Farming Planning Review Panel of the 20-year-old lease at Okehampton Bay.
The fin-fish farming expansion by Tassal into the east coast marine environment has caused enormous community concern.